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You know that is the same argument I've seen people who study nuclear science and rocket science make about Muslims -- we should give muslims art -- we'll do the science thank you. What do you need science for? we'll do it for you.

Now on a more important note -- people study science as they study anything else. Did you think when Pythagoras, Gauss, Euler, Ramujanan did their math, they were looking for a reason.

Further still, not my area of expertise, but I suspect: sciences produce natural wealth -- wealth produces societies that are at ease with themselves -- hard to climb Maslow's pyramid if your stomach is empty.

Thank you very much I'll get back to the study of science now.
I am not saying we should ignore science but stressing the fact we need to put more emphasis on building basic blocks of peaceful society. ramunjam or euler did not spend millions of dollars unlike the govts in subcontinent. When countries do not even have good working judicial system for the common masses it is vain glorious to think about man in space. Focus should be giving better life to ppl and rest of the things will follow on its own.
 
I am not saying we should ignore science but stressing the fact we need to put more emphasis on building basic blocks of peaceful society. ramunjam or euler did not spend millions of dollars unlike the govts in subcontinent. When countries do not even have good working judicial system for the common masses it is vain glorious to think about man in space. Focus should be giving better life to ppl and rest of the things will follow on its own.

I think the basic building society is a misleading term.

Wealth solves a lot of problems.

What is lifting India out of wealth are disproportionately hard sciences.
 
Wealth solves a lot of problems.

What is lifting India out of wealth are disproportionately hard sciences.
I have seen India grow from 1990 , but the fact is wrt society it has only regressed.
Wealth is not going to stop corruption,tax evasion, bring respect to other human beings it will only complicate things further. Indians will still break the law with impunity irrespective of how wealthy they are.

More over wealth will be only concentrated in hands of few ppl not permeate the through the society. Wealth will only strengthen the corrupt practices not alleviate any thing.
 
I have seen India grow from 1990 , but the fact is wrt society it has only regressed.
Wealth is not going to stop corruption,tax evasion, bring respect to other human beings it will only complicate things further. Indians will still break the law with impunity irrespective of how wealthy they are.

More over wealth will be only concentrated in hands of few ppl not permeate the through the society. Wealth will only strengthen the corrupt practices not alleviate any thing.

America was highly corrupt in the 1950s -- the city bosses of NYC, Chicago, SF rivaled any Indian, Pakistani politician -- you create a middle class, they ask for rights and they have the money to back up their demands.
 
You think you can keep up with me in anything in a level playing field :/ -- I think I'm going to consider sapuko -- you're bright -- maybe even brighter than me -- but I have had a privileged preparation for decades. You can't even comprehend what that preparation is.
Were you taught humility or any such character building techniques?
 
@A-Team he does have a point.

Many Pakistani Americans including myself lobbied to get the Afghan Robotics team admitted to the US -- and all they got was a parole (which is not a visa)

How do you explain that?
Why would you lobby to get an Afghan team admitted?
 
Why would you lobby to get an Afghan team admitted?

why not -- The poor kids deserved it -- credit should be given where it is deserved.

My lazy daughter can't get of the couch and these poor kids overcame so much adversity.
 
why not -- The poor kids deserved it -- credit should be given where it is deserved.

My lazy daughter can't get of the couch and these poor kids overcame so much adversity.
Fair enough. I personally would not go out of my way to help a team from a country which does not accept my people and considers them subhuman.
 
Fair enough. I personally would not go out of my way to help a team from a country which does not accept my people and considers them subhuman.

I can see what you are coming from -- but I think it is most important not to loose your humanity at even the most challenging of times.

A more minor point: I live in relative comfort and abundance -- maybe if these young women lived in similar circumstances, their outlook towards the world would be similar to mine -- and then maybe not.
 

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